Kayigamba Canisius, Perezida w’umuryango urengera inyungu z’abarokotse jenoside yakorewe abatutsi muri Mata 1994 ku rwego rw’akarere ka Nyanza ku mugoroba wo ku wa 30 Kamena 2015 yatunguwe n’ubuke bw’abitabiriye kwibuka abakozi b’amakomini yahurijwe hamwe, ugereranije n’imyaka yashize.

Perezida wa Ibuka mu karere ka Nyanza yavuze ko mu myaka yashize ubwo bibukaga abakozi bahoze ari ab’amakomini bazize jenoside yakorewe abatutsi muri Mata 1994 byitabirwaga kuva ku rwego rw’utugari kugeza ku rwego rw’akarere.

Yagize ati: “ Hari ubwo twajyaga twubuka aba bakozi b’izahize ari komini bishwe muri jenoside yakorewe abatutsi ugasanga abantu ni benshi kuva mu tugari n’imirenge yose igize akarere.

Ati: “Iyo mu tugari abantu bibuka usanga batabona abantu b’inzobere babaha ibiganiro bihambaye kandi bibafasha mu gufunguka iyo baje nkaha bagira icyo bahavana”.

Yanenze bikomeye bamwe mu baturage batakandagiye muri uyu muhango mu gihe iki gikorwa cyo kwibuka avuga ko nta muntu n’umwe utarebwaga nacyo.

Hamwe na hamwe intebe zari zateguwe zari zambaye ubusa habuze abo zateguriwe kuko uyu muhango wo kwibuka abakozi bari ab’amakomini bazize jenoside bari bake ugereranyije n’indi myaka yashize nk’uko perezida wa IBUKA mu karere ka Nyanza Kayigamba Canisius yabivuze.

Umuyobozi wungirije ushinzwe ubukungu n’iterambere mu karere ka Nyanza Nkurunziza Francis nawe mu ijambo rye yagarutse ku bwitabire muri uyu muhango wo kwibuka avuga ko uri hasi ugereranyije n’indi myaka yashize.

Yabivuze atya: “ Nk’uko perezida wa Ibuka abikomojeho ubwitabire ugereranyije n’indi myaka yashize ntabwo buryoshye”.

Agira icyo abivugaho yemeye ko hashobora kuba harabayeho intege nke mu gutegura yizeza ko ubutaha hazashyurwamo imbaraga.

Yavuze ko indi mpamvu yateye abantu kubura ari ibyago umwe mu bakora mu karere ka Nyanza yagize akabura umuvandimwe we witabye Imana abantu benshi bakaba bari bamuherekeje.

Amafaranga hafi miliyoni 300 y’u Rwanda angana na 2,5%  niyo yiyongereye ku ngengo y’imari isaga miliyari 11 y’akarere ka Ngoma  y’uyu mwaka wa 2015-2016,ugereranije n’ay’umwaka ushize w’ingengo y’imari warangiranye n’uku kwa Gatandatu 2015.

Ingengo y’imari akarere ka Ngoma kazakoresha uyu mwaka ni miliyari 11 miliyoni 866,ibihumbi 685 n’amafaranga 758,ikaba yemejwe n’inama njyanama idasanzwe yateranye kuri uyu wa 30/06/2015.

Ibikorwa by’iterambere ry’abaturage biziharira 40% by’iyi ngengo y’imari yose.Muri ibi bikorwa bizakorwa uyu mwaka harimo kwegereza abaturage abazi meza(Sakara-Ruhinga miliyoni 144),abaturage 1,00 bazahabwa amashanayarazi,gukora imihanda mihahirano,n’ibindi.

Perezida w’inama njyanama y’akarere ka Ngoma,Banamwana Bernard,nyuma yo kwemeza iyi ngengo y’imari no kuyikorera ubugorora-ngingo,yatangaje ko  bizeye ko ibikubiyemo bizagerwaho neza bitewe na gahunda nshya ya “Joint imihigo “leta yashyizeho.

Yagize ati”Aho bibereye byiza mu ishyirwa mubikorwa ry’iyi ngengo y’imari nuko gahunda ya “Joint imihigo” ije gufasha cyane,kuko niba ari umuhigo akarere gahuriyeho na minisiteri y’ibikorwa remezo,tukawuhuriraho na RTDA ni ukuvuga ngo turawuhiga nabo bawuhige,bityo bizorohe kuwushyira mu bikorwa.”

Banamwana akomeza avuga ko hamwe n’iyi gahunda nshya ya “Joint imihigo” akarere gahiga umuhigo minisiteri azabafasha kuwesa ari uko yemeye ko iwufitiye amafaranga bityo ngo bikazoroha kuba ingengo y’imari yakoreshwa neza ikagirira abaturage akamaro kuruta uko ubudi hari ubwo wasangaga hari imihigo iteshejwe kubera kwitana ba mwana.

Kukijyanye n’ishyirwa mubikorwa  ry’ingengo y’imari ishize y’umwaka wa 2014-2015,ubwo yamurikwaga byakuruye impaka ndende kuko wasangaga akarere kagaragaza ko igikorwa runaka amafaranga yakoreshejwe  100% nyamara mu mihigo uwo muhigo utareshejwe.

Aha akarere kakaba kasabwe kujya gakurikirana ishyirwa mubikorwa ry’imari baba batanze mu gikorwa ntibibe gusa kuvuga ngo batanze amafaranga ubwo ingengo y’imari yakoreshejwe.

Muri iyi nama hagaragajwe imbogamizi y’amafaranga yo kuzuza hotel ya Ngoma,aho ngo miliyoni 400 ziteganijwe zidahagije ngo irangire kandi haaba hataraboneka aho andi azava.

Muri iyi ngengo y’imari y’akarere ka Ngoma,ibikorwa by’iterambere byahariwe 40%,imishahara y’abakozi 40%,mu gihe azagenda mu mirimo itandukanye(Fonctionnent) angana na 19%.

The Genocide widows shortly after they were handed brand new houses fully furnished.

The First Lady, Jeannette Kagame has inaugurated five big houses for elderly and needy genocide widows and widowers in Nyanza district.

This morning, July 3, Vestine Mukamusoni 64, a genocide widow, and one of the beneficiaries, was arrested by emotions and sobbed as she thanked the First Lady.

“This is something I had never dreamt of,” says Mukamusoni  who spent years running seeking shelter in different homes, many a time not welcoming. Her husband and two children were killed in the genocide and all properties destroyed.

“Its evident that some problems relating to genocide survivors are long term and will not be gone in a very short time, but you can count on our undivided support,” Mrs. Kagame told the widows ” We will not let you die of misery and boredom, we are here to support you in all aspects of life.”

The homeless and needy Mukamusoni, and nineteen other widows, all now have a decent home.

One of the five houses that will accommodate genocide widows in Nyanza district. Each house cost Rwf 35 million .The First Lady handed over the houses to the beneficiaries.

Each house cost Rwf 35 million.

The houses located in Rwabicuma Sector, Mushirarungu cell in Nyanza district were constructed by FARG in partnership with Reserve forces.

The giveaway comes as part of ending the 100 days of commemorating the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

Each house has 4 self contained rooms, a shared kitchen, and a 2000litre water tank.

The housing units are modern and spacious fitted with glass windows, concrete floor and a tiled roof. A total cost of Rwf 175 million was spent on construction.

Meanwhile, about 50 genocide widows in Nyanza still lack shelter.

Lt. Col Adolphe Simbizi, Director of Production with RDF Reserve Force says the Force has built 1900 houses for genocide widows countrywide.

But these are the first houses to be constructed for genocide survivors in Nyanza.

The elderly widows’ day-to-day life…which includes medical insurance, food, accommodation will be sponsored by AVEGA; the Association of the Widows of the Genocide formed to help widows, orphans and others who lost family members in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Another association, the First Lady’s initiative called The Unity Club, has helped in advocacy for elderly genocide widows to get good housing and low income generating activities around the country.

The First Lady (center) interacts with genocide widows in one of the new houses shortly after officially handing over the fully furnished houses to the beneficiaries

Meanwhile, Mrs. Kagame told the youths in the district to help elderly people. “It should be a joint cause for all youths to help elderly genocide survivors overcome the effects of bad history,” she said. ““This way, the widows will face life positively without regretting why they survived.”

Through the unity club, she said, “we will support widows to overcome trauma and also advocate for renovation of their houses.”

Shortly after she sat in her living room with her house-mates and held a friendly chat, Mukamusoni happily told the First Lady that now, “I have a place to call home.”

The genocide widows will live in a very exotic environment

Source: KT Press

Abafatanyabikorwa b’akarere ka Nyamasheke bagize ihuriro ryirwa JADF, barasaba akarere kujya gakora ibikorwa by’imihigo bikabohererezwa hakiri kare bakareba ahakanewe ubufasha bwabo hakiri kare kugira ngo ibikorwa bakorera hamwe nk’abafite intego zo guteza imbere akarere, bikomeze bitere imbere.

Ibi babisabye mu nama yabahuje n’ubuyobozi bw’akarere kuri uyu wa kane tariki ya 02 Nyakanga 2015 ku cyicaro cy’akarere ka Nyamasheke.

Robert Nzacahinyeretse umuyobozi w’ihuriro ry’abafatanyabikorwa b’akarere avuga ko bikwiye ko bamenya hakiri kare ibikorwa akarere kazakora, bakamenya ibikwiye kunozwa ndetse n’ibikwiye guhindurwa bityo buri mufatanyabikorwa akisanga mu bikorwa by’akarere abifata nk’ibye.

Yagize ati “ni byiza ko ibikorwa biri mu mihigo abafatanyabikorwa babimenya hakiri kare, ibikwiye kunozwa bigakosorwa, ibi kandi bizafasha kugira ngo buri wese atange umusanzu ukwiye no kunoza ibyo akora nk’ubyikorera”.

Elie Musabyimana umwe mu bitabiriye iyi nama ahagarariye RDB, avuga ko guhuza abafatanyabikorwa nk’uku bituma bahuriza hamwe umurongo bityo bya bikorwa bakora bikagera ku muturage binoze kandi vuba.

Agira ati “twese dukorera abaturage iyo duhuje umurongo bigera ku muturage ku buryo bworoshye, abafatanyabikorwa bagafasha mu kwesa imihigo bityo umuturage akiteza imbere”.

Umuyobozi w’akarere wungirije ushinzwe iterambere ry’ubukungu, Bahizi Charles, yasabye abafatanyabikorwa b’akarere kugumya gushyiramo imbaraga zishoboka kugira ngo akarere kagumye gutera imbere, abasaba kutarebera mu gihe babona hari ibitanoze mu karere, abemerera ko ibikorwa by’akarere bikwiye kubagereraho ku gihe.

Yagize ati “byaba bibabaje hari igikorwa cy’akarere cyadindira kandi muhari  haba hari ibyihutirwa karere kadashoboye mukaba aba mbere mu kugafasha , ni yo mpamvu natwe twifuza ko ibikorwa by’akarere byabageraho hakiri kare mukabimenya bityo mugafata iya mbere kugira ngo bigerweho”.

Uru rwego rw’abafatanyabikorwa b’akarere ruhuza imiryango itegamiye kuri leta, ibigo bya leta ndetse n’abayobozi batandukanye bo mu mirenge ndetse n’abo ku rwego rw’akarere.

Mu gihe cy’intamabara yo kubohoza u Rwanda abaturage bo mu karere ka Gicumbi bashima imyitwarire y’inkotanyi kuko zaranzwe n’ibikorwa by’urukundo byo kubafasha guhangani n’ibihe bikomeye barimo.

Nk’uko abatuye ahitwa Gishamabashayo mu murenge wa Rubaya ahatangiriye urugamba kuri uyu wa 2/7/2015 batangaza ko ubugwaneza n’impuhwe abasirikare b’inkotanyi babagaragarije muri icyo gihe aribyo byatumye babasha gutsinda urugamba.

Nyirarukundo Chantal avuga ko mu mwak wa 1990 yari akiri muto ariko ko ikintu yibukira ku basirikare b’inkotani ari uburyo babahungishije amasasu kugirango badapfa.

Muri icyo gihe kandi ibyo kurya babihabwaga n’abasirikare b’inkotanyi ndetse bakabashakira n’imyenda yo kwambara.

Muri icyo gihe ngo byari bikomeye cyane bakumva amasasu bagashaka kwiruka abasirikare b’inkotanyi babigishije uburyo bwo kwihishamo kugirango baticwa n’amasasu.

Uretse kuba barabigishije uburyo bwo kwihisha babashakiye uburyo bakomeza no kwiga aho inkotanyi zabazaniye abarimu bo kubigisha bakomeza kubaho nk’uko byari bisanzwe.

Siboyintore Evariste mu buhamya bwe avuga ko yahuye n’inkotanyi ava kuruganda rw’icyayi rwa Mulindi maze batangira kuganira ndetse batangira gufatanya urugamba rwo kubohora igihugu.

Uburyo inkotanyi zabarindiye umutekano ngo zabahurije hamwe maze zibasaba ko batazajya birukanka ahubwo ko igihe hatangiye imirwano inkotanyi zahitaga zimura abaturage zikabajyana kure y’aho imirwano iri kubera kugirango hatagira umuturage upfa.

Siboyintore ashima byimazeyo ikinyabupfura cyaranze abasirikare b’inkotanyi muri icyo gihe ndetse nanubu we aka abibonamo ibanga ryatumye banatsinda urugamba.

Umuvugizi w’ingabo z’u Rwanda, Brg.Gen. Nzabamwita Joseph atangaza ko n’ubwo bari kurugamba icyo barwaniraga ari abaturage, akaba ariyo mpamvu bagombaga gushakira abaturage iby’ibanze kugirango babashe kubaho.

Bimwe mubikorwa babakoreraga harimo kubashakira abaganga bo kubavura igihe barwaye, ibyo kurya,  n’amashuri yo gukomeza kwigiramo ndetse n’ibibatunga.

Ashimira abaturage batuye muri iyo mirenge urugamba rwatangiriyemo kuko bagize imyitwarire myiza ndetse baranzwe n’ubwimvikanye bwabafashije gutsinda urugamba rwo kubohora u Rwanda.

Bamwe batuye akarere ka Ngororero bagaragaza ko batarasobanukirwa icyo aricyo indangagaciro nyarwanda zaba i’zibanze abanyarwanda bahuriyeho bose cyangwa iz’ihariye akarere kifuza ko ziranga abagatuye.

Mu gihe hashize ukwezi kwahariwe indangagaciro nyarwanda kwatangiye kuwa 1 kukageza kuwa 30 Kamena 2015, mu karere ka Ngororero haracyari abaturage barimo abato n’abakuze batarasobanukirwa izo ndangagaciro mu gihe zigomba kubaranga buri munsi, bakaba basaba ko hakongerwa imbaraga mu kuzibasobanurira.

Nshimiryo Emmanuel, ufite imyaka 30 avuga ko aziko indangagaciro ari ukwizigama ugatera imbere gusa. Ibi abihuriyeho n’abandi benshi bari mu byiciro bitandukanye usanga batazi indangagaciro z’ibanze n’izo bihariye mu karere kabo. Icyo bose bahuriraho ni ukwiteza imbere nk’indangagaciro ngo bumva iruta izindi.

Mu gihe abantu bakuru cyane cyane ababyeyi basabwa kurera abana babo babatoza indangagaciro nyarwanda, usanga nabo batarazimenya. Mukakarangwa Claudine, umubyeyi ufite abana 5 avuga ko atakwigisha ibyo atazi kuko ataramenya izo ndangagaciro ariko ngo afite inyota yo kubisobanurirwa.

Ibigo by’amashuli byafashe iya mbere mu gushyiraho indangagaciro na kirazira

Umukozi w’akarere ka Ngororero ushinzwe imiyoborere myiza, Mupenzi Esdras nawe yemeza ko hari abaturage bataramenya indangagaciro ngo babe babasha kuzirondora uko zikurikirana. Avuga ko ibyo biterwa n’urwego rw’imyumvire abatuye aka karere bafite, ariko ko zigishwa mu nama zitandukanye zihuza abaturage.

Avuga ko gahunda yo kwigisha indangagaciro izahoraho kugeza buri muturage abyiyumvisemo. Mupenzi avuga kandi ko mu kwezi kwahariwe indangagaciro, mu karere ka Ngororero abaturage bubakiye bagenzi babo ubwiherero (imisarani) 500, mu rwego rwo kwimakaza isuku. Hanatowe abarinzi b’igihango kuva mu midugudu kugera ku karere.

Asaba abatuye akarere ka Ngororero kujya bubahiriza bakanakurikirana gahunda ubuyobozi bubagezaho kugira ngo he kugira usigara inyuma nkuko bimeze ku batarasobanukirwa n’indangagaciro nyarwanda. Muri aka karere, ibigo by’amashuli nibyo byafashe iya mbere mu gushyiraho indangagaciro zihariye ababigana bagenderaho.

Rwanda will today mark twenty one years since the Rwandan Patriotic Army stopped the Genocide against the Tutsi. The 21st anniversary of liberation, known in Kinyarwanda as Kwibohora21, will be marked by President Kagame meeting with residents of Gicumbi – one of the most historically significant region in the Liberation of Rwanda.

This year, liberation events and activities will take place across the country at the community level under the theme “Prosperity in the dignity”.

Kwibohora21 activities include the inauguration of projects built by the Rwanda Defense Forces in collaboration with various public institutions. The projects include a health post, six classrooms at Gishambashayo Primary School, construction of a modern market, supply of electricity and water to Gishambashayo School and Rubaya Health Centre in Rubaya District and the rehabilitation of 11 km Gatuna-Rubaya road.

During this year’s Army Week, Rwanda Defence Force also provided medical care to more than 10,000 people in medical services such as ophthalmology, dental Care, gynecology, pediatrics, voluntary counseling and testing as well as voluntary medical male circumcision at Rubaya, Rutare and Rushaki Health Centers.

Liberation Day is held every year on 4 July, marking the day the Rwandan Patriotic Army liberated Kigali leading to the end of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Kwibohora21 is an opportunity to share Rwanda’s liberation story, the journey of unity and reconciliation since 1994 and the country’s vision of shared prosperity.

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has called on Rwandans to strive for their dignity as a way of standing on their own and outshine the rest of the World as a truly liberated country.

Kagame was addressing Rwandans at the celebrations to mark the 21^stliberation day held in Gicumbi district in the country’s Northern Province, one of the historical places where the former Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPA) started their liberation movement to oust the then Juvenal Habyarimana’s regime in  1990; a regime that perpetrated Genocide Ideology and its execution.

Rwanda has been pushing forward, realizing own goals and objectives twenty one years after the liberation struggle that halted the Genocide against Tutsis despite its forceful end; the rare  mayhem in human history that left over a million innocent lives exterminated.

Kagame said that numerous Rwandans sacrificed their lives, property and gave up everything they had to have their country liberated during the liberation struggle, urging that “there is no one who should teach Rwandans the meaning and importance of liberation; independence and human rights”.

Kagame stressed on the need for Rwandans to own the liberation and say no to anyone who undermines the country at whatever cost and stated that the struggle for Rwanda’s dignity is the new liberation struggle.

 “The liberation we need is to tell them the truth and show them that liberation is ours and we should liberate ourselves from them” Kagame said referring to the western countries who try to have Rwanda dance to their tune of human rights.

“The war of bullets ended, it is now a war for our own dignity, to strive for our own dignity by building schools for our children, health services to our people, cultivate our fields to have food, build roads. We can do this and we will do it in this new war for dignity” Kagame said.

He also added that Rwandans and Africans at large have to fight a war of striving for good governance, stopping corruption among other practices which are not part of the Rwandan and African culture.

“If we fight all the things, we shall get our dignity and liberation and we will not need to explain to anyone because they support us and thus we are asked to give explanations”

“We are a people of dignity, that is who we are and that is part of us. Don’t tell us how to be liberated. Are you our creators?  Kagame questioned, literally pointing to western countries who continually instruct other countries as they keep policing African states in which Rwanda is found.

Kagame also called on the world to be respectful of each other and work together to fight issues that affect us globally such us terrorism instead of turning the same weapon of terror on countries like Rwanda.

“What we need to do is to work together with respect of each other, but not trying to terrorize us. We don’t use terror in our culture and we cannot allow that to happen here. Liberation starts with saying no to this terror and it starts with us” Kagame said.

The president also hailed the people of Gicumbi who supported the liberation struggle, saying that Rwanda will always remember their contribution and assist these communities whenever possible, though the appreciation cannot be equivalent to the sacrifices made by the people and community.

What came as a ‘Friendly’ or a ‘Love Letter’ from France’s President Francois Hollande to Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame wishing him a good 21^st Liberation Anniversary, turned out to be a ‘Party Spoiler’.

Shortly before addressing the nation from Gicumbi District, Northern Province, from where the liberation struggle took momentum, President Kagame was  briefed about the content of the letter, but he had not read it.

The letter, written in French and signed by President Hollande himself, wished President Kagame and Rwandans a happy Liberation Day, but went on to remind Kagame that despite the development and progress he has made, he should remember to “respect human rights”.

“Before I read the letter, I want to respond to it,” Kagame told the crowd attending the national cerebration. “When I see it I will respond, but I want to respond now.” he said and added, “and so what if not [respect human rights]?

He continued. “So, we liberate ourselves and we cant know how to respect human rights?” “Am I the person to be reminded about rights and what I should and shouldn’t do for the people I lead?”

Kagame who seemed to have been disturbed by the letter, told the crowd that the motivation of such a behaviour is rooted from Western arrogance and neocolonialism.

“Those who gave us independence gave it in words, and remained with the real independence,” Kagame said.

France is Rwanda’s former colonial master and was Jevenal Habyarimna’s closest African ally and a supporter of the former genocidal regime, which Kagame fought and defeated.

Rwanda and France have had a sour relationship since the end of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

The powers at the Elyse continue to face Rwanda’s wrath for providing save haven to tens of notorious genocide suspects who masterminded and executed the bloody massacre.

“They support bad leadership and protect the killers…now they have the courtesy to remind me rights?…after all, for me, the rights and independence we need is to fight those who dictate to us what we want,” he said as the crowed responded with wild applause.

“No one loves us more than we do…we appreciate the support, and friendship, but it should not strip us of our rights.”

As cerebration went on across the country, the millions of Rwandans were attentively listening to the address from the head of the state.

Kagame returns the lecture 

France as we all other western nations are at war with global terrorism. The war on terror has engulfed and fatigued military resources. Indeed France has been the latest victim of terrorism by Islamic extremists.

“Instead of partnering with us to fight terrorism …you are instead terrorising me?” Kagame wondered. “We cant accept that. We will not allow to be terrorised. We need dignity and mutual respect.”

He said that Rwanda is currently fighting a war to gain respect and dignity from Western powers that have failed to let go of ‘arrogance and neocolonialism.”

The President said that Rwanda, alike many other African nations, are being bullied by their former colonial masters and those who give them aid.

Kagame, who led the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) rebel group that fought and defeated Habyarimana’s genocidal regime said that “The war of bullets  was won, but now there is another war to fight; the war for dignity.”

Meanwhile, cerebrations across the country were characterised by jubilant residents dancing to patriotic songs, traditional dances and enjoyed the abundant food and drinks prepared.

A mammoth of youthful students join the cerebration

Source :KT Press

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has paid tribute to the population of Rubaya, in Gicumbi district, northern part of Rwanda, for they were so generous to him and his men during the liberation struggle.

“You protected us, you fed us and facilitated us to win the struggle. We cannot have enough to thank you but will always consider your hand in the struggle,” said the President on July 4^th while celebrating the country liberation, of which he is an icon.

Back in 1992, Kagame’s Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) Inkotanyi settled in Rubaya, precisely at Gishambashayo, a hilly green land at some kilometers from Uganda.

RPF made the place a sickbay as they were planning the assault of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city.

It was also the main garage of RPF among other facilities of the army that attacked Rwanda from Uganda in 1990 without any option to retreat.

Kagame settled in the nearby Mulindi sector which served the RPF main base during the struggle.

Other parts of the country were cursing the RPF, calling them cockroaches, cannibals and other names that were invented by the genocidal regime.

Across the country, hunt of accomplices or people that were alleged to support RPF was delicate.

However, Rubaya community considered not to sabotage Inkotanyi’s advance.

President Kagame who would march on Kigali on July 4, 1994 has said of the hospitable population of Gicumbi that they knew what RPF was struggling for:  liberation for everyone.

“There is no Tutsi, Hutu and Twa. We are all equal human beings,” he said.

After overthrowing the genocidal regime which massacred over a million Tutsi during the 20^th century big tragedy, the genocide against tutsi, RPF led government tried over 1.9 million cases related to genocide crimes.

They were expected to take over a hundred year in conventional courts were cleared within ten years through community participative courts, Gacaca.

In recognition of the good deeds of Gicumbi residents, the Rwanda Defence Forces(RDF) constructed a modern market, a health post and a model primary school with a capacity to accommodate 413 pupils in Gishambashayo, ‘as part of waging a war on human security,” according to Gen. Nzabamwita, army and defense spokesperson.

Launching the health post, RDF carried a week long free medical treatment of the nearby population.

About 8000 patients benefited free treatment.

Jubilations filled Rwanda’s ‘Petit Stade Amahoro’ in the capital Kigali on Sunday, July 5, as thousands of Rwandan girls, women and men gathered to celebrate 10 years anniversary of Imbuto Foundation, a charity organisation championed by Rwanda’s First Lady Jeannette Kagame.

Emotions engulfed young girls, mostly orphans of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi, from across the country, who celebrated the ‘unexpected’ change in their lives.

“I never expected to graduate at the University and become an engineer today,” Cecile Umurerwa, one of the beneficiaries of Imbuto Foundation told KT Pres.

In 2005, Imbuto Foundation was born. Formerly ‘Protection and Care of Families Against HIV/AIDS (PACFA), the organisation changed to Imbuto, with a more pronounced vision of empowering and preparing young Rwandan girls for prosperous future.

Mrs. Jeannette Kagame’s signature statement is usually that, “A seed well planted, watered, nurtured and given all the necessary support, successfully grows into a healthy plant- one that reaches high and stands tall.”

One of Rwanda’s devastation brought about by the 1994 genocide against Tutsi was the thousands of orphans and vulnerable children across the country.

According to the Director General of Imbuto Foundation, Radegonde Ndejuru, one of the objectives was to bring back hope for girls and women in the country as part of supporting the government to restore hope and dignity of all Rwandans.

You girls participating in a reading project initiated by Imbuto Foundation

The foundation has so far nurtured and supported over 4000 girls and boys with academic assistance and leadership skills.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mrs. Kagame said that, “We marvel at how the young girls we nurtured and supported have grown and become inspiring role models in their own right.”

The First Lady, who was flanked by Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie Blair, said that, “We are convinced that the best way to overcome the obstacles facing girls is to influence the home and school environments.”

“We felt this approach would contribute to solving other challenges such as access retention and transition,” she added.At the ceremony that was attended by government officials, development partners and members of civil society organisation, girls demonstrated appreciation to Imbuto Foundation and the First Lady for restoring their hope for the future.

“To us, you are a parent. You made us who we are today.” said Ugirase Sybille, one of the beneficiaries.

“Imbuto Foundation showed me that with discipline and hard work, there is always a positive outcome,” said Aurore Umutesi a beneficiary of Imbuto who currently serves a Lead Course Facilitator and Data Analytics Coordinator at Kepler, a nonprofit university program designed for the developing world, located in Kigali.

The event was characterized by different panelists who gave an inspiring and moving speeches to Rwandan girls.

Cherie Blair, who was a panelist, gave an emotional testimony of her struggle to success.

“I was not a natural First Lady of UK. I was born from a poor family in Liverpool. My father abandoned my mother when I was 8. At the same period, I was awarded the first prize in school. At the age of 14, I was such a confident girl…I told my classmates that I will once become the Prime Minister of UK,” Mrs Blair, who holds a top class degree in law said amidst applause from the audience.

The former UK First Lady left a message to Rwandan girls; “Dream and achieve. But remember all this involves humility, hard work and commitment.”

On the penal was also UNICEF country director, Noala Skinner, who reminded participants that, “Education for girls is right in principle and in practice. It has a great effect on the world.”

Celebrations to mark 10 years of Imbuto Foundation’s success involved a series of activities including a football match played yesterday between the organisation’s partners and government officials.

The celebration attracted thousands of girls and boys from different parts of the country

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame during the Rwanda Military Academy ‘GAKO’ Pass out Ceremony June 2015; PPU photo

As we speak, we are in a struggle where we want to determine for ourselves what we want to be, and not allowing someone else to decide for us.

It is not an isolated case, it is one of many cases that remind us how hard it is to travel on that journey of self-determination, to make choices for our future, of who we want to become.

We have one of our senior government officials; the head of our security and intelligence organisation, a general, a freedom fighter; somebody who fought with us to make this country what it has become. He was picked off the street in London. An official, going to perform duties that fall in his responsibilities, is arrested as he is boarding a plane to come back home.

From that we are told, there was a request from Spain that this person is wanted in Spain and therefore should be extradited to Spain for whatever crimes Spain says they want him for.

We are also told that UK has a legal obligation to hand this person over to Spain and it doesn’t matter what facts, what circumstances, and what context; he must be handed over. It is an obligation. But that is very selective.

Because UK has another legal obligation. The legal obligation is: this is an official of the State of Rwanda, an official of a people who respect themselves, who don’t offend others. A people who want to decide what they become. Not UK, not France, not Spain, deciding what they become. It will never happen.

Just picked a security chief on the street like one of those thugs. According to them, there is no legal obligation they have towards Rwanda for their official, somebody with diplomatic status; because there is this other obligation they have towards Spain.

But look at the depth of this matter. First, it is France, then Spain, now it is the UK. I don’t know who is coming next. All directed to inconvenience, to destabilise, to just show the absolute contempt they have for Rwanda and for Africa. It is absolute contempt.

Something African, something Rwandan doesn’t feature anywhere in their considerations when it comes to making choices. It’s not the first time and it’s not going to be the last time.

But any decent human being, any decent Rwandan, any decent African, even any decent person from those countries, cannot accept this. Absolutely not.

In fact, sometimes I feel like being cynical about it. But let me put it this way: I think it is good, I really feel happy that of all people, it happens to us, to Rwandans. Maybe if it had happened somewhere else, it would just disappear. But here, it is happening to the right people. The right people who want to stand up to it and who will always stand up to it.

I am happy that such people pick on us, they pick on Rwanda to be the one they treat like this. We are up to the job in many ways.

We don’t have the power of wealth, or military strength, of technology, of all kind of things these countries have pride in. But we have a couple of things. We have the power of the spirit.

We have the power of being underrated. The power that comes from anger of being held in contempt. The power that comes from the anger of being insulted. The power that comes from the anger of being pushed against the wall. Because when that happens and when we are left with nothing else, building on that spirit, we come back in full strength.

We have the power of resilience. We have the power that derives from the anger of the historical attempt to wipe us off the surface of the earth, and we refused to go.

Those who want or were behind or associated with the genocide that happened here in Rwanda, did not reach the point they wanted to reach. Not because they changed their mind on the way, or because they forgave us. But because they failed to achieve it. They won’t achieve it now. They won’t achieve it today.

People may think they can put us down, but they’ll never take us out. We are a decent people. People of enough strength to not accept this rubbish of injustice.

I kept reading comments in social media, and I happened to read something about somebody, a really useless African but who’s held in high esteem, writing that, you see, it is right for these people to be arresting Karenzi, because it is time to do justice, that the victims of genocide got justice, now it is the time for justice for others.

What that means to me, the history of my country isn’t the history we read in books, it’s the history we have lived.

The question in my mind, was so really the victims of genocide got justice? But is it what the victims, those people who were targeted in genocide, before genocide happened, were thinking about? Did they say, let genocide happen and we will get justice?

In other words, it was okay to lose one million people, as long as there was going to be something that looked like justice at the end of it. This person who works for human rights who was saying that must have gone nuts!

We did not need genocide here in Rwanda. If he wants it for other people, let him recommend that. We did not want it. It’s as if Rwandans chose justice after they have got genocide. But have they even got justice?

Every single day, they are all over the place chasing, hunting down people who actually fought, sacrificed and stopped genocide. They protect and take pride in associating with those who actually perpetuated it. They do.

Those capitals are full of people who carried out genocide here in Rwanda. If you are saying those who stopped it should be tried for stopping it, or for any mistakes some individuals could have made during that time, and you equate it to genocide, well again, it is an issue of being selective.

Why don’t they look a little bit back in their history? What the history would have suggested would have been to try those people who stopped those who were carrying out the Holocaust. In Nuremberg, they should have tried the Allied forces that stopped the Holocaust, they should have charged and tried those who fought the Nazis. Why didn’t it happen? Because it’s not an African situation.

Today, all these stories you hear about, in fact is what they don’t say out there. Spain wants somebody from Rwanda, for anything. Spain has never asked Rwanda to try or discuss whatever issues they need to talk about relating to whatever they have in mind about justice. It is actually Rwanda that has several times gone to Spain and asked them: what is your problem? It’s like they don’t have to say anything. They will wait until somebody is out, or they create these cases to actually inconvenience people, so that they don’t travel anywhere to do their business.

These judges and others who were sworn in today can tell me, they are learned people in matters of law: I want to understand under what circumstances the laws of countries like ours, or others, become completely subordinate to the laws of other countries, to the point that other countries will say “we think somebody did something in your country, we want them here to answer”?

And sometimes these cases are decided on by village judges. Village judges. Like you have one in our villages. Judges over there operating on their own, summoning and saying to a country that they want their Minister. They wag their finger. That tells a story.

We have discussed this matter between Europe and Africa in our last meeting of Head of States and Government in Brussels – this matter came up very well. It has been discussed at an AU summit. But every time they decide to shelve it because they want this kind of situation to go on and on forever.

It is history repeating itself in a different form. It is a continuation of slavery, of colonialism, of arrogance, bigotry and telling the Africans, wagging a finger at them and saying “this is where you belong”. We are no longer the African that belongs there.

But there are Africans who belong there. Even among us. Even those who sit and drink and live with us. And these are the Africans preferred by those countries because in the end they serve their interests.

One typical example, in fact, is even associated with this case. We have Rwandans who are out there who exiled themselves under all sorts of claims. But all of them have cases to answer here. All of them. Not a single one doesn’t have a case to answer here. Not a single one of them. If you check their records, some ran away, they used to be in the army and they committed a series of crimes. They are there, on record. Others used to work in the places you know.

One of them used to work for me. And the only thing he can talk about, the only thing he can take pride in, is having worked for me. That’s the only thing. Nothing else. And he ran away twice. He deserted and asked for mercy to come back to work. We allowed him to come back then he worked for some time, he got into another mess and he ran away again. But when he is out there, this is the man Himbara, you hear of him every day, even yesterday he was on radio talking about this case.

Of course these are the people these countries find very important to associate with. And you know the reason? Among them, you have seen this BBC documentary, the so-called ‘Untold Story’. What they are talking about is not the untold story.

The untold story is what underlies that documentary. The untold story is that these countries and the people who are behind it want to change the narrative into one that lacks the actual story of what happened in Rwanda that they were so deeply involved in.

They want to mask it by saying “No it is not us. These are the savages of Africa who kill each other. The genocide was between the Hutus and Tutsis; this is the normal thing in Africa, it is the normal thing in Rwanda. These blacks turn on each other and kill one another. It’s the normal thing. For us we have nothing to do with those things that happened.”

So that they retain the moral ground on which to always operate from, dictating to the very Africans. But it is not us. We are people of high standing and above these fellows.

Of course inadvertently they make one big mistake. How do you maintain any credible ground by associating with criminals who feed you, who advise you, who you want to flaunt as the people who respect democracy and human rights, “they have run to us, the government in Rwanda was about to kill them”.

Kill them? Since when did we become killers? These same people have killed more people than they can claim Africans ever killed. Among those killed, they have killed Africans, millions of Africans.

How then do we become killers? How do we give our lives to save our country and our people, and at the end of the day, we are killers? Just because you hobnob with these foolish fellows, actual criminals, in your country, who you use as witnesses, the ones with “credible evidence” that so and so did this. You are using criminals.

How can you take pride in hobnobbing with criminals? These Rwandans they use, even those who gave advice to those who arrested Karenzi are criminals from here.

One of them happens to now have dual citizenship, he is British and Rwandan. People see him on twitter every day, a fellow called René Mugenzi. How he wants to be of political influence in UK and then in Rwanda at same time, is going to be difficult. And there is another thug from our army who ran away, a criminal called Marara.

They move around and tell police that the head of security in Rwanda is in town, we feel threatened, because he will kill us. “Oh, OK, we’ll go for him.” That is one of the things that happened. Because this man, Karenzi, was arrested three or four days after.

In fact, we didn’t know, that is how much these fellows hold us in contempt. But these fellows knew. They were already writing, those of you who follow online news, these fellows Rene, Marara and some of their foreign friends living in Canada, and one in the US.

They were already writing talking about the arrest of this man on 17th of June. We are told that it is when the indictment, the request for extradition came from Spain. As for us, we only knew when he was being arrested. These people have already formed their own imaginary state of Rwanda, that leaves out who they work with, to determine what happens to us. This is not serious. Absolutely not serious. How can this be?

As I said last time I was here, somebody says we are really good friends, we even support your development, which we appreciate by the way. But do you support my development and take away my dignity at the same time? Are you really helping me because you despise me? Is that the meaning? You support my development but at the same time despise me. You hold me in contempt. This level of disdain is just unacceptable. To tell me, you are not good enough., you are not relevant enough, to deserve any respect from me.

This is what the story is about. So now how can the argument be extradition? You want to extradite this Rwandan general to Spain? No, you should not have arrested him in the first place. There are no grounds under which anyone should have arrested our chief of intelligence under any circumstance.

We are talking about justice. Justice has a course that it follows, which respects certain norms. So I don’t understand the grounds on which we talk about extradition.

Extradition to where? What right does Spain or any country have in this matter, to try Rwanda, to try this head of intelligence?

What right did this country have to arrest him in this manner, let alone now talk about extradition?

None of these things have any basis. They don’t have anything other than absolute arrogance and holding people in contempt. It is the only basis.

People talk about rule of law and they respect their laws, you can’t treat people like this. If this is how Africans must be treated, imagine if we arrested, even for a good reason, one of their chiefs of anything? Is that even thinkable? You know what would happen.

But it is easy to do it to the Africans. I think they must have mistaken him, you know, for this problem they have with illegal immigrants, these fellows who are sinking in boats in the Mediterranean, these brothers, sisters and children of ours.

The way they treat them is the way they treat this minister from Africa, head of intelligence. They really must have mistaken him for an illegal immigrant. What was he looking for? They know that he works with them, he has been working together with them on many sensitive things. That’s how they turn around.

But of course, again, in other places, Africans or black people have become shooting practice targets. You know when people are learning to shoot they have dummies made from paper or something. We Africans and other blacks we have become targets for shooting practice of trigger happy people. Whenever they want to learn to fire bullets, they practice on us. That is how far it has gone.

They want to hold in esteem the Africans who the Africans don’t respect at all. They are the ones they respect. Like these fellows I was talking about, criminals, petty criminals and thugs literally. These Himbaras and their sponsors. There is a man who used to be a businessman here called Rujugiro. We found out he’s the one who financed the hearing which Himbara had in another friendly country. Himbara appearing anywhere to talk about Rwanda, can you imagine? Why don’t they invite one of you to go and talk about Rwanda? Why do they invite Himbara? Because he has a bad story to tell about us.

Well, if there are bad stories about us, we will take care of that ourselves. You don’t have to take care of me; you don’t have to take care of my bad story. I don’t take care of your bad story. If there are any wrongs here, if there are things that need to be put right, and there will always be things to put right, absolutely, we should be the people who can put them right.

But for somebody else to want to put right the wrong they may be preserving here is not the way to do business. I think they’ve run this kind of business for so long that they’ve gotten too used to it. Pulling back from it is almost impossible for them. Every day it is sweeter to keep practicing the same thing, even as it gets worse with us and makes us angrier every day.

So we come here, swear in ministers, judges, MPs, and we just go. We go and do what? If we don’t internalise this and understand it. Any decent human being, any decent Rwandan, any decent anybody cannot accept that people will do to us whatever they want, because they can. No. We will do things with people because it is the right thing to do. And they should be doing with us, or to us, the right things. Not just because they can.

So we will keep our heads cool. You need to keep your heads cool, because these things can drive you to a level of anger where you can even make a mistake.

So just keep your heads cool, I’m trying to keep mine cool, I’m really trying. I’m struggling, I’m not finding it easy, but I know I have to keep the calm, that is necessary to do things right. It is important. Otherwise the anger that people might have about what others do to us can drive people crazy. They can influence people to make mistakes. And we shouldn’t make mistakes. But that doesn’t mean we can accept any mistake being done against us.

I think, in the end, we must and will prevail. It doesn’t matter how long. We learned in our earlier days to be patient. But be patient and not just hope for time. Time is important and so is patience. But it is also what you do in that time. Don’t just sit back and say you are patiently waiting it out. You must be patient while you are doing something.

These struggles we have been in, they take a long time. They require a lot of patience. But even more, they require a lot of hard thinking and a lot of doing. And simply have the right spirit that won’t be easily broken.

So those who take us on, we advise them that we are aware that we are in it for the long haul. We can absorb a lot of these things and still remain with our heads high.

There are too many things to say, I think I should allow you time to go have your own thinking, and more doing of things that can make our country better, in spite of all these things that happen to us.

Thank you very much.

Source: The Independent

At 1:00PM, on a bright sunny Thursday; October 4, 1990, a 27 years old Agnes Uwayezu, working as a theater nurse at Uganda’s Nsambya Hospital in Kampala; was unexpectedly summoned to a secret meeting in the boardroom.

She had no idea something pragmatic was about to unfold. Indeed, a liberation struggle was in the offing.

In the boardroom, Uwayezu was engaged by unknown people to resign and join the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA); a rebel outfit that had attacked Rwanda four days earlier (October 1).

Before the end of the meeting, Uwayezu had already caught a burgeoning feeling.

She was convinced and immediately promised to join, but requested for more time to think about it first.

The meeting ended and everyone walked away as if nobody knew each other or had met each other before.

Later in that day, three more people followed up on her to find out when she would join. She bought more time.

On October 9, Uwayezu could not endure the disturbing insomnia.

She was too anxious, her heart paced fast and was too indecisive but enthusiastic at the same time.

Her adrenaline oscillated uncontrollably, but the courageous spirit ruled over all the obstructing thoughts that had reigned her mind.

“Deep in my heart, I knew I had to go fight for our homeland,” Uwayezu says as she nodes her head and wagging a her finger up in the air.

The ugly journey begins

That night of October 9, she boarded a truck full of teenage youths, enthusiastic, energetic, determined, but unaware of the destiny. They totally knew little about what they were about to face. A deadly war was awaiting.

A few hours before the beginning of the twilight of October 10, Uwayezu along with a large group of teenagers, bore Uganda ‘fare thee well’.

They crossed into Rwanda via Kagitumba border post and inhaled the fresh air of the Savannah land of Eastern Rwanda. They had just began a journey that would flip Rwanda for good.

Upon arrival, Uwayezu and her colleagues had no time to breath. They had to begin treating causalities and patients who had suffered injuries on the first day of attack as the fight to capture the border area intensified.

That was the beginning of Uwayezu’s longest and dangerous journey back home.

Not a honeymoon

Uwayezu’s story of liberating Rwanda is sobering. Indeed, it was not a honeymoon. Like many others, it was a sacrifice of life as the only guaranteed contribution to the struggle.

Ironically, RPA fighters had little training. In fact majority of the recruits were trained on the first day and sent to the battlefield to face the enemy.

Despite the setbacks the RPA faced throughout the struggle, with almost no logistical supplies, there is one thing they had in abundance; medical personnel.

But having a bunch of trained medics without supplies was logistically incapacitating.

Actually RPA was too short on supplies throughout until it captured power. Improvisation and creativity were the available options. “We used the personnel to replace the machines we did not have,” Uwayezu remembers.

The fierce doctors

Col. Dr. Ben Karenzi, now the Commandant of Rwanda Military Hospital, who was the head of medical personnel of the Umutara axis, says that there was no choice, but to “use the experience they had in a professional setting to adapt to the environment.”

But the adaption to environment did not address the lack of supplies in a hostile environment. “We did a lot of improvising,” Dr. Karenzi says. But there was only a few they could do anyway.

They had no neuron surgeon though. There was almost no alternative for casualties with brain injuries. “Many casualties who had skull fractures died,” Uwayezu painfully recalls. “Those who survived had other treatable fractures and injuries.”

The kind of setting for treating the influx of casualties was purely rudimentary it made life too exposed to death.

However, Dr Karenzi explains that it was actually safer and healthier to set up a rudimentary medical center in the bushes than in houses or structures.

“Houses were very dangerous, and infectious,” he says. “We were comfortable in bushes, under trees and banana leaves because there were no germs.”

Despite lack of supplies, the rudimentary setting remained clean and secure

In such a setting, other risks were also many nevertheless. They would be exposed to the enemy. “We had to hide, because we were a guerrilla army”.

The ‘Sick Bay’ would be covered with leaves and grasses for camouflage. The tent would be cleaned and hygienically kept, and evacuated whenever time to move ticked.

When time to move came, everyone became worried. Doctors and nurses simply carried what they needed to go with; a kit and a few supplies.

In some cases, some materials were left behind because they had no vehicles and there was no time to waste. It was a disaster with no response plans.

The donkeys

Throughout the struggle, logistical support was one of the biggest obstacles. Soldiers had to walk long distances.

Yet, the terrain was extremely unfavorable because of Rwanda’s mountainous nature. Supply was mainly done by human beings.

As the battle shifted to the North, in the higher mountains, some soldiers failed to climb up Muhabura and Mugahinga mountains.

The RPA had to look for donkeys to help people carry supplies up in the mountains.

Sometimes donkeys also failed and were left to rest first as well. Eventually, but painfully, soldiers endured and managed to overcome the mountains.

But that was not all. They were susceptible to extreme weather conditions in the mountains.

Many strategic plans were jeopardized, as more terrifying situation unfolded. Several soldiers miserably died in the mountains.

It was freezing fatally up there. Soldiers could not even take a shower.

One morning, doctors woke up to a Shigellosis outbreak, a type of deadly diarrhea. The disease spread like wildfire, but lasted for a while, but impact was devastating.  “We lost many people,” laments Dr. Karenzi.

Doctors had to use all kind of experiences to counter the outbreak. RPA had to dig deep in the coffers to purchase negram; an expensive drug, according to Dr. Karenzi, but “worked like a miracle cure.”

The level of response by doctors and nurses was more rapid than soldiers on the battle front. And the diarrhea was eventually contained indefinitely.

Technically, RPA was fighting two wars at the same time. As bullets flew over the heads and bombs shelled on them, running was not part of the doctors’ options.

They can’t remember how many soldiers died in their hands. They can’t count how many died before they were treated. They can’t also count those they treated.

They had to face death in the face throughout. Unfortunately many died on the front line as they fought hard to save lives.

Col. Karenzi: Survivor doctor of countless deaths to a prolific military medical doctor running a professional hospital

The story of the RPA can never be told without mentioning the brevity and sacrifices made by its doctors and nurses.

Five years ago, this writer interviewed retired soldiers Denis Karera, who was with Dr. Richard Sezibera in the same battalion, the famous Bravo Division.

Karera said that Dr. Sezibera was one of the prolific doctors in the RPA; a very active combat doctor; one of a kind, who is not easy to find. The Doctor eventually became Major General Paul Kagame’s doctor. Kagame  was the leader of the struggle, and now the President of the Republic.

(Interestingly Dr. Sezibera became the chairman of EAC, while Karera now heads the EAC Business Council).

Karera emotionally told this writer then that,“The way Dr Sezibera handled patients during the war is something I can never forget,”

In difficult times, “like those during a war,” he said, “conditions are usually hostile and life becomes unpromising, but we felt comfortable with Dr. Sezibera around because he treated us and made us believe there was life the next day.”

The high command attacked

In a similar situation, Dr Krenzi mentions a day which the RPA will never forget.

The high command, led by Maj. Gen Kagame, had co-located itself next to the ‘Sick Bay’.

Suddenly an enemy started shelling the two camps, the high command and the sick bay.

Life broke loose. “It was hell,” says Dr, Karenzi. “It was like a rain of bombs.”

The stakes were high. Through the enemy’s Observatory Post (OP), the RPA was located at the enemy’s advantage. “They were just shelling.” “It was not good.”

When Maj. Gen. Kagame (center) took over as RPA commander, he swiftly moved the his army to the mountains, and changed the entire liberation plan.

Meanwhile, Uwayezu was also there and she remembers the moments. “We were frightened,” she says. “It created a lot of anxiety”.

This, many veterans told the writer later after the liberation, that it was a terrible mistake the RPA had committed and the lessons learnt has lived on until today.

At such a critical moment where everyone was trying to take cover, doctors and nurses were caught in the cross fire.

They had to attend to casualties and save their lives. “While others were trying to hide and take cover, I could not afford to do that because the number of casualties was increasing so rapidly.”

“I don’t know how I survived, but we had one last chance; the high command started moving,” says Dr. Karenzi.

Unfortunately that day many injured soldiers died both in the sick bay and others on the battlefield. “We had to move,” he says.

But that is something doctors had gotten used to. Plainly put, they were used to watching people get shelled on and die miserably. There was no immediate medical help for causalities, but Dr. Karenzi remembers some doctors who risked and saved a few lives.

In fact Uwayezu watched her brother lose life after the enemy shot him in the stomach.

However, such heroes like Uwayezu have lived to celebrate the victory of the struggle.

When Uwayezu left Kampala, she said to herself, “we will fight until we die or win and live.”

Uwayezu has no regrets

Truly, the triumph from the win she got.  Now a nurse at King Faisal, and the Chairperson of the National Council of Nurses and Midwives (NCNM), today she looks back, gauges the outcomes and the cost of the struggle, and says, “It was the only option, and no regrets”.

Abatuye Gisagara baratangaza ko ibyiza bagezeho nyuma yo kwibohora ubuyobozi bubi, ari intangiriro y’ibindi byinshi bari kugenda baganaho. Ibi babitangaje bizihiza umunsi wo kwibohora tariki ya 4/07/2015 banashima ingabo ziyobowe na Perezida Paul Kagame zabibagejejeho.

Mu byo abatuye akarere ka Gisagara bavuga ko bagejejweho n’ubuyobozi bwiza, harimo iterambere, uburezi kuri bose, abari n’abategarugori basubizwa ijambo, abaturage barajijuka kandi bava mu bwoba babagamo.

By’umwihariko abatuye umurenge wa Mamba ahizihirijwe umunsi wo kwibohora ku rwego rw’akarere, abakuze baravuga ko ibyo bagenda babona bijyanye n’iterambere batigeze mbere bakeka ko byabageraho.

Umusaza Karimunda w’imyaka 80 ati “Wa mukobwa we aho nabereye sinari bwabone amashanyarazi numvaga abava mu mujyi bayavuga, none ubu natwe dukanda ku rukuta inzu ikabona, ubwo se hari ukwibohora gusumbye uko?”

Kimwe n’uyu musaza, abaturage bo mu murenge wa Mamba bavuga ko impinduka nziza zigaragara cyane, kandi ko muri iyi myaka 21 u Rwanda rwibohoye ibyo bagezeho bibaganisha ku byisumbuyeho.

Abasheshakanguhe 202 bo mu murenge wa Mamba ubwo bashyikirizwaga matora zavuye mu mafaranga bizigamye ubwabo kuri uyu munsi wo kwibohora, bagarutse ku byiza bagejejweho n’ubuyobozi nyuma yo kwibohora, birimo no kwigishwa kwizigamira bakabasha kwikorera igikorwa nk’iki.

Umwe mu bashyikirijwe matora ati “Ariko wagirango mbere ubuyobozi ntibwadutekerezaga twe abaturage! Nonese ahava aya mafaranga mbere ntiyahabaga? Harakabaho ingabo z’igihugu zatubohoye ubwo buyobozi bubi”

Lèandre Karekezi umuyobozi w’akarere ka Gisagara nawe yongeye gushishikariza abaturage guharanira ko ibyo bagezeho muri iyi myaka 21 bibohoye, byabyazwa umusaruro bikaba intangiriro y’ibindi byinshi.

Ati “Mwubakiwe amavuriro ntimubashe kuyivurizamo kubera kutagira mituweri byaba nta kamaro, mufite imihanda itagendwa ngo mukore ubuhahirane n’ahandi, nta kamaro, duharanire rero kujya mbere”

Byinshi mu bikorwa remezo nk’amashanyarazi n’amazi meza bigaragara mu karere ka Gisagara bihagejejwe mu myaka ya vuba mbere ya Jenoside yo mu 1994 ntibyari bihari, abahatuye bakavuga ko ari ibigaragaza kwibohora kwabo.

Abatuye umurenge wa Mamba kandi bongeye gutuma umuyobozi w’akarere kabo ko yabavuganira ingingo ya 101 y’itegeko nshinga igahindurwa bakabasha kwitorera nanone Perezida Kagame wabagejeje kuri ibyo byose.

Abatwara abantu n’ibintu kuri moto nabo bari bitabiriye uyu muhango

Tariki ya 4 Nyakanga buri mwaka, ni umunsi u Rwanda rwizihiza umunsi mukuru wo kwibohora. Nyuma y’imyaka 21 u Rwanda rubohowe n’Ingabo zari iza FPR Inkotanyi, abaturage bo mu karere ka Gatsibo barishimira iterambere bamaze kugeraho n’impinduka mu nzego zitandukanye.

Ibi aba baturage babishimangira bashingiye mu nzego zitandukanye zirimo urw’ubuzima ndetse no mu rwego rw’ubukungu. Bamwe mu baturage baganiriye na kigali Today kuri iyi nshuro ya 21 u Rwanda rwizihiza uyu munsi mukuru wo kwibohora, bavuze ko ibyo bamaze kugeraho byose babikesha ubuyobozi bwiza.

Abategarugori nabo bari babukereye bishimira uburyo kwibohora byabahesheje agaciro

Habamenshi Calixte ni umugabo ukuze, atuye mu murenge wa Remera aragira ati:” Ngereranyije no mu gihe cyashize ubu mbona maze kugera ku

ntera ishimishije, kuko nabashije kwiga ubu ndikorera kandi ngiye no kwiyuzuriza inzu ihagaze miliyoni hafi eshatu, ikindi kandi no mu muryango wanjye tubasha kubona buri kimwe cyose.”

Umunyamabanga wa Leta Uhoraho muri Minisiteri y’Uburezi Rwamukwaya Olivier wari umushyitsi mukuru kuri uyu munsi, mu butumwa yagejeje ku baturage ba Gatsibo yagarutse ku nsanganyamatsiko y’uyu mwaka igira iti “Twiteze imbere twihesha agaciro”, ababwira ko nubwo urugamba rw’amasasu rwarangiye bakwiye gukomeza urugamba rwo kwigobotora ubukene burundu.

Mu rwego rw’ubuzima mu karere ka Gatsibo habarirwa ibitaro bikuru bibiri, ibigo nderabuzima 19 byegerejwe abaturage hamwe na udushami tw’ubuzima 12 duherereye mu mirenge itandukanye igize aka karere.

Kimwe n’ahandi henshi mu gihugu, mu gihe cya mbere y’uko u Rwanda rubohorwa n’ingabo zari iza FPR-Inkotanyi, ibikorwa remezo mu karere ka Gatsibo ndetse no mu gihugu muri rusange byabarirwaga ku mitwe y’intoki ariko ubu impinduka igaragarira buri wese.

Uyu munsi mukuru wizihirijwe ku rwego rw’Imidugudu, mu karere ka Gatsibo ukaba wizihirijwe mu Mudugudu wa Butiruka, uherereye mu kagari ka Gasabo, Umurenge wa Remera.

Milliyoni 38 471 110 z’amafaranga y’u Rwanda niyo yakusanyijwe n’abikorera mu karere ka Rubavu kugira ngo azashyirwe mu kigega Ishema ryacu kizafasha gutanga ingwate yatswe Lt Gen Karake Karenzi wahejejwe mu gihugu cy’Ubwongereza n’inzego z’ubutabera zaho.

Mabete Dieudonne ukuriye urwego rw’abikorera mu karere ka Rubavu avuga ko amafaranga yatanzwe n’abikorera mu karere ka Rubavu, abakozi bakora mu bigo bitandukanye harimo n’abakorera Leta, amakoperative n’abaturage bashaka kwita na Karake Karenzi.

Milliyoni 38 471 110 z’amafaranga y’u Rwanda yatanzwe hashingiwe uko abantu bifite kandi babishaka, Mabete akaba avuga ko kwifatanya na Karake biri mu kwamagana agasuzuguro u Rwanda rwashyizweho n’igihgu cy’Ubwongereza.

“Karake yaharaniye kubohoza igihugu cyacu, ubu twishimira ko dutekanye. Ifatwa rye si we rireba gusa ahubwo rireba abanyarwanda bose kuko umuntu wagaritse Jenoside kumurega ibirego nkibyo Karake aregwa ni agasuzuguro kandi tugomba kukamagana twifatanya nawe.”

Tariki ya 6/7/2015 biteganyijwe ko amafaranga azashyirwa kuri konti 00040-0677862-38 muri Banki ya Kigali cyangwa 400.3820333-11 muri Banki y’abaturage zafunguriwe ikigega cyo guhangana n’agasuzuguro amahanga agirira u Rwanda.

Abikorera bo mu karere ka Rubavu bakurikiye abacuruzi 36 bateranyije amafaranga y’u Rwanda angana 120.600.000 mu gukangurira abanyarwanda gutanga inkunga yabo kugira ngo amafaranga y’ingwate yose urukiko rwasabye Lt. Gen. Karenzi Karake abonekere igihe.

Mu ntara y’Uburengerazuba amafaranga yo gushyira mu kigega cyo guhangana n’agasuzuguro amahanga agirira u Rwanda akaba ari gukusanywa, aho akarere ka Rusizi bamaze kwemeza gutanga miliyoni 25 naho utundi turere ngo ntibarumvikana ayo bazatanga.

Umunyamabanga wa Leta uhoraho muri minisiteri y’ubuzima Dr. Ndimubanzi Patrick, yasabye abitabiriye umuhango wo kwizihiza umunsi wo kwibohora ku nshuro ya 21 tariki ya 04/07/2015, ko ibyakozwe ari byinshi kandi byiza, ariko ko nanone bakwiye kujya bafata aka kanya bakibuka abitanze bakemera ku mena amaraso yabo.

Ati “uyu mwanya utebere uwo kwibuka bariya bemeye bagatanga ubuzima bwabo, bakamena amaraso igihugu tukaba tubona aho kigeze, kuko iyo batitanga, ntituba twishimye gutya”.

Minisitiri Ndimubanzi, akaba yashimye abatuye akarere ka Ruhango, aho bageze biyubaka nyuma y’imyaka 21 u Rwanda rubohowe, abasaba ko bakomereza aho bagateza imbere igihugu, icyerekezo 2020 bakazakigeramo bari mu rundi rwego.

Uyu muyobozi ushinzwe akarere ka Ruhango muri Guverinoma, yasabye buri munyarwanda wese kurangwa no kwihesha agaciro, baharanira kwigira bagateza imbere aho batuye. Kuko ngo urugamba rw’amasasu rwarangiye, ubu bakaba bari mu rugamba twitera mbere.

Umuyobozi w’akarere ka Ruhango Mbabazi Francois Xavier, akaba yashimiye cyane ingabo zari iza FPR, zitanze zikabohora igihugu, abanyarwanda bose bakaba barangwa n’umunezero.

Umuhango wo kwizihiza umunsi wo kwibohora mu karere ka Ruhango ku nshuro ya 21, witabiriwe n’abantuy benshi biganjemo urubyiruko rw’abanyeshuri, ukaba wabereye mu mudugudu wa Nyarusange ya mbere, akagari ka Rwoga umurenge wa Ruhango.

Bamwe mu baturage bagiye batanga ubuhamya, bahamije ko nyuma y’imyaka 21 bamaze kwibohora cyane cyane ubukene, ubu bakaba barangajwe n’iterambere, bagashimira umukuru w’igihugu warangaje imbere abanyarwanda bitanze bakabohora igihugu.

Abaturage bo mu karere ka Nyabihu bavuga ko nyuma y’uko ingabo za RDF, zibohoye u Rwanda hagahagarikwa Jenoside yakorerwaga Abatutsi, kuri ubu urugamba rw’amasasu rwarangiye hakaba hasigaye urwo kurwanya ubukene. Bakaba bizeye ko ngo ubwo uwatsinze urw’amasasu rwari rukomeye ntaho yagiye,bazafatanya nawe mu guhashya ubukene burundu.

Sindikubwabo Innocent umwe mu baturage,avuga ko ubuyobozi bw’akazu bwari bufite inkomoko muri aka gace,ahanini ngo bwatekererezaga abaturage.

Sindikubwabo Innocent avuga ko nyuma y’urugamba rw’amasasu,buri wese akwiye kugira uruhare mu kurwanya ubukene

Yongeraho ko kuba umuturage ataragiraga uruhare mu bimukorerwa ngo byazanaga ingaruka z’uko nta terambere n’inyungu abaturage rusange bageragaho,ahubwo ugasanga ibyakorwaga byaragiriraga umumaro abo bari bibumbiye mu kazu.

Mu gihe kuri ubu ngo hariho ubuyobozi bwiza,n’iterambere ngo rigenda rigerwaho kandi abaturage bakageranda bikura mu bukene.

Akomeza agira ati “Natwe ubungubu,mu myaka 21,tugomba gukomeza kuzirikana icyo abakoze urugamba rwo kwibohora baharaniye,uwo muhigo tugomba kuwukomeza. Wari umuhigo wabo,ariko ubu ku nshuro ya 21 n’umuhigo wacu. Kuko n’ubwo babohoye igihugu ku buryo bw’amasasu,inzira iracyari ndende,aho tugomba kwibohora mu bukene,mu mikorere,tukiteza imbere. Bityo urwo narwo ni urugamba.”

Munyandamutsa we agira ati“ubwo abatsinze urw’amasasu rwari rukomeye bahari kandi bakaba badahwema gufatanya n’abaturage mu bikorwa byose;n’ubukene tuzabutsinda burundu.”

Sindikubwabo we yakomeje avuga ko nk’abaturage bashima iterambere bamaze kugeraho kubera Leta y’ubumwe,nyuma y’imyaka 21. Agaruka ku mashuri yageze kuri bose,umuriro w’amashanyarazi wageze kuri benshi,imihanda n’ibindi bikorwa remezo biri muri Nyabihu.

Akaba asanga kuba mu myaka 21,byinshi bimaze kugerwaho,abaturage bazakomeza gutera imbere bakarushaho kwikura mu bukene.

Umuyobozi w’umurenge wa Rambura Gasana Thomas yibutsa abaturage ko nubwo aho uwo murenge uri haranzwe n’ubutegetsi bw’akazu,nta terambere bwabagejejeho nk’iryo bagezeho ubu.

Yongeraho ko asaba abaturage gusegasira ibyagezweho,no kugumya gufatanya n’ubuyobozi mu guteza imbere igihugu. Aboneraho gusaba cyane urubyiruko gutera ikirenge mu cy’abemeye kwitanga bakiri bato mu rugamba rwo kubohora u Rwanda kandi bakabigeraho. Urubyiruko rukaba rusabwa kuba imbaraga z’igihugu zubaka.

Ifoto yo hejuru ni iyerekana ko amashanyarazi n’imihanda irimo n’uwa kaburimbo yageze henshi,iykurikira ni inyubako y’uruganda ruzatunganya amata ruzatangira muri uyu mwaka,iya gatatu ni imashini zashyizwe mu ruganda rw’ibirayi narwo ruzatangira uyu mwaka.

Bitewe n’amaterasi abaturage bavuga ko isuri yagabanutse ndetse n’umusaruro uriyongera ku buryo ibirayi bigeze kuri Toni 32/ha.

Ubwo mu Murenge wa Ngoma ho mu Karere ka Huye bizihizaga isabukuru y’imyaka 21 u Rwanda rumaze rubohowe, Jeanne Izabiriza, umunyamabanga nshingwabikorwa w’Intara y’amajyepfo, na we utuye muri uyu murenge, yavuze ko nta wabona amagambo yo gushimira Inkotanyi zabohoye u Rwanda.

Mu ijambo rye, Madamu Izabiriza hari aho yagize ati “hari abavuga ngo bamaze imyaka 21, kuko iyayibanjirije yari mibi cyane.” Yunzemo ati “Ubu se umuntu yabwira iki Inkotanyi? Kwandika se birahagije? Kuririmba se birahagije? Gukora ibyiza se birahagije? Gutetesha se birahagije?” Ngo nta wabona amagambo ashimira bikwiye Inkotanyi zabohoye u Rwanda.

Yashimiye Inkotanyi rero zatabaye igihugu igihe cyari cyabaye umuyonga agira ati “Nkotanyi nziza, ni ukuri mbikuye ku mutima mwarakoze. “

Yunzemo kandi ati “Mwishwe n’inzara, mwishwe n’inyota, mwishwe n’imbeho yo mu birunga, mwicwa n’abashakaga koreka u Rwanda, murwana no guhagarika jenoside, ntacyo mufite, ariko mwari mufite mwuka wera, Imana ibari imbere, ni yo mpamvu mvuga ko muri intumwa z’Imana.”

Eugène Kayiranga Muzuka, umuyobozi w’Akarere ka Huye, na we yashimiye Inkotanyi, ndetse anashishikariza Abanyengoma gukora cyane, kuko ngo kwibohora nyako ari ugutera imbere, ndetse no guharanira ubusugire bw’igihugu kuri buri munyarwanda.

Yagize ati “buri wese ku rwego rwe agomba kumva ko ibikorwa bye bigomba gutera imbere, umunsi ku wundi, akagira intambwe atera, nta gusubira inyuma. Ukumva ko ugomba kurwanya uwo ari we wese washaka kudusubiza inyuma. Igihe cyose ukumva ko kuvugwa neza kw’igihugu, ubusugire bw’igihugu, ari yo neza yawe nk’umwenegihugu.”

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Ibirori byo kwizihiza umunsi wo kwibohora mu Murenge wa Ngoma, byitabiriwe na bamwe mu bahatuye, ariko byitabirwa kurushaho n’abanyeshuri biga mu mashuri abanza n’ayisumbuye yo muri uyu murenge, ndetse n’abamotari kimwe n’abanyonzi bahakorera.

Ibi birori kandi byanaranzwe no gucinya akadiho, haba ku bantu bakuru ndetse no ku bana, haba mu ndirimbo zirata Inkotanyi, mu zirata insinzi, n’izindi.

Kuwa gatanu tariki ya 03 Nyakanga 2015, ubwo Abanyeshuri bavuye ku rugerero Zone ya Gihango igizwe n’imirenge ya Gihango ndetse na Mushubati  bahabwaga icyemezo cy’uko basoje urugerero (Certificat), batangaje ko bishimira imihigo bari bahize yagezweho nibura ku kigero cya 85% , bagasaba ko barumuna babo bashyiramo ingufu bahanga udushya ku girango u Rwanda rukomeze rutere imbere.

Ufitamahoro Joyeuse uvuye ku rugerero mu murenge wa Mushubati yagize ati” turishimira ko twahize kuzakora cyane ku rugerero nkaba numva ku kigero cya 85 cyangwa 90 ku ijana twahiguye imihigo ariko turasaba abazadusimbura kuzakora cyane ndetse bakanahanga udushya kugira ngo dukomeze guteza u Rwanda imbere”.

Mugenzi we Bigaruka Desire uvuye ku rugerero mu murenge wa Gihango nawe avuga ko imihigo bahize bayesheje aho avuga ko bafashije kubakira abatishoboye,gusubiza abanyeshuri mu ishuri ndetse no gukangurira abaturage kugira isuku akaba abona uko bari babyiyemeje bavanyeyo umusaruro uhagije akaba avuga ko ababakurikira bazakomereza aho bagejeje byanaba byiza bakarushaho.

Muri uyu muhango ibigo bikikije imirenge ya Mushubati na Gihango nabo barashimira bakuru babo bakoze ibikorwa bitandukanye kandi byubaka igihugu kandi nabo ngo ntibazaba ibigwari nk’uko babitangaza.

Iradukunda Asiya wiga kuri College de La Paix yagize ati” turashimira bakuru bacu bavuye ku rugerero kandi natwe tuzakomereza aho bagejeje nk’urugero nk’iyo mu buyobozi burangije Manda havugururwa byose natwe tuzareba aho bagejeje dukomerezeho”

Umuyobozi wa polisi mu karere Spt Mutabazi yashimiye uru rubyiruko ibikorwa rukora ku rugerero anabasobanurira amateka yaranze u Rwanda abasaba gushyira hamwe bubaka igihugu aho kucyoreka.

Tariki ya 24 kamena 2015 nibwo muri zone ya Gihango abasore n’inkumi basaga 195 barangije urugerero bakaba barakoze ibikorwa birimo kubaka uturima tw’igikoni,kubakira abatishoboye,gukangurira abaturage kurwanya imirire mibi no kugira isuku nk’uko bari babihize mu kwezi kwa mbere tariki ya 14 uyu mwaka.